Your video game hot take(s) thread
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Because DnD did it, and you get a little dopamine rush every time the number goes up.
I agree with you, though. I would rather just have fights be balanced properly rather than being expected to maintain the narrow balance between being underleveled and overleveled.
As far as I can tell, based on the clips from this video, no changes have been made to the game's script with the exception, as seen in the trailers, of renaming Toadstool 'Peach' as she is in every Mario game since
That's rhetorical. I know what the point is.
Are these remakes still subject to the
I actually think the Night Slashers Remake doesn't look too bad. Visually, I would have referred pixels, but I hope we get the option to select between the Remake look and the original look. Guardian Heroes did the same with its re-release on Xbox Live Arcade, and Capcom ended up doing the same for Ultra Street Fighter 2 HD Remix (Switch). The game is definitely at work in progress state. Another thing I noticed is that ever since Streets of Rage 4 released in 2020, a lot of these old brawlers franchises that are coming back just don't want to do pixels. I don't have a problem with it, but it's obviously everybody's trying to do their own thing visually to stand out. I can at least applaud them for that. There's still plenty of pixel brawlers on the Indy market, but it's understandable why certain developers are doing this.
Here's a hot take: Kyle Katarn is an absolute Mary Sue, and he gets a pass because he's every white male Star Wars nerd's self-insert character writ large.
I keep forgetting he even exists. Can we get a Star Wars game about the Yojimbo looking dude from the first Star Wars Visions? His story and most of the other stories are way more interesting whatever is going on in Star Souls.
Starting to realise being able to deduct the country of origin from just the videogame game title alone might mean am already far too deep into this nerd hobby to escape 
or at least in regards to UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II SYS:CELES. Grandma needs to be kept on her toes with prezzie buying somehow I suppose.
or at least in regards to UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II SYS:CELES. Grandma needs to be kept on her toes with prezzie buying somehow I suppose.
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I was deep into this Japanese shit since I was 3 years old! You don't get anymore Japanese when it comes to titles such as Devil May Cry, Killer Is Dead, Gungrave, or Bayonetta. Embrace them. Embrace Them!Starting to realise being able to deduct the country of origin from just the videogame game title alone might mean am already far too deep into this nerd hobby to escape
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To be fair, that seal is often misunderstood. It wasn't saying that the game was good, just saying that the game would actually work.
Yeah but the joke was about there being several instances of mistranslations in some of their game, which would be reasonable to think should fall under their quality seal.
Age of Calamity did more for the story, characters, and combat than either BoW and ToK. The only flaw with the game is that evil generic wizard that was hyped up in marketing and didn't amount to much in the overall story. AoC's other benefit is that the game is AU retelling where all of the heroes survive. It's a great game for those interested and one of the top Dynasty Warriors/Muso Spin-Offs. I long traded the game in, as Dynasty Warriors game don't do much for me when I complete them. I still have the save data, if I wanted to do so, I can comeback to where I left off.
They're nothing more than glorified click baiters. The same applies to the reactionaries and YouTube gaming critics out there as well.
Some, sure, but also a bit generalizing and unfair.
Story time..
Back in college I was into the music scene, hung out with musicians and got some positive reaction to some writing and talking I did on the subject. But that was all out of genuine passion and not for money or anything. As soon as I was asked to write formal reviews, I hated it and got bored. There was a chasm of quality between me wanting to write about something that made me think and feel strongly vs just being expected to deliver content.
Games are 100x worse than music in terms of time-wasting. Playing one mediocre triple A game is like listening to 60 mediocre albums.
No, I'm not being unfair. I didn't say all of them, but there are a lot of them that do that. And it is not helpful to anybody, but themselves (even then not by much). Them doing that is actually doing harm to the medium than good. It means that something that is average is far more hated on than it's necessary, when they're going to forget about it within the next day or two and rage on about something else equally less important or mediocre.
Depends on what type of game you are playing. If it's the AAA space, expect a majority of that. Not all, but a majority. Once again, smaller games, Indie games, and AA usually kill it in this department. Besides, we still get plenty of video games with excellent music (that don't use already established and licensed songs unrelated to them okay) better than most mainstream albums and music or movies.
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The "small/indy game is better than big AAA game" sentiment is seeping into my soul and brain actually. I mean I still, like before, insist on being agnostic about that and taking each game on its own. But now that we're at the end of the year and I'm on a major gaming break, I been thinking about what really hit me and what didn't and the fact that Cocoon, Jusante, Dredge and Hi-Fi Rush have lingered with me more than Spidey 2 and Jedi 2 (games I really did like) and FF16, Diablo 4, and AC: Mirage (games that disappointed me) is making more... I dunno, sympathetic with bias, I guess?
I'm making some ebay moves that will provide much fodder for discussion when I switch over to that other forum... should be fun
I'm making some ebay moves that will provide much fodder for discussion when I switch over to that other forum... should be fun
You can be agnostic all you want; it doesn't make what's going on currently any less true. As I stated a thousand times before, not all indie games are sunshine and rainbows, but even ones that fail at least try or don't try to screw the consumer over. The big games you like, there's nothing wrong with that. Still doesn't change the fact that the industry is pumping out mediocre titles a majority of the time. The only reason is not as bad now, is because there's nobody left to really screw over except going either further below the bar into negative space. But they're always be something around the corner that's worse than the last time. Not to mention all the layoffs, despite these games becoming successes or having great numbers. Or the layoffs only happen, because the big wigs at top didn't like the numbers they were getting or put way too much in a live service than necessary.
Thank you. I will say with Spider-Man 2, everyone should've expected just more of the same, but more polished. I know people complained about the Mary Jane sections and the Non-spiderman stuff, but I don't care much. Mary Jane (not her looks, there's nothing wrong with her) sections I'll throw them a bone, but everything else is either optional, not that big a deal, or can be skippable. Nearly everything else on the list that involve big budget games screwed up and some type of way or launch with a buggy and broken game to start. When in reality it could have been delayed two or three more months to be mostly or all highly polished.
Hi-Fi Rush is a smaller game, but money was still poured into that. Apparently that game was in development pre-covid. As in, the middle of 2019, pre-covid.
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That’s why the trick is only playing fun games! These days I barely have time for those, so I sure as hell won’t have time for mediocrity or worse. The biggest difference between the two is the amount of dedicated time is far greater with games or hell, pretty much any other medium besides music. Whenever I was swamped at work I would bring some of it home and do it after the kid went to bed, put on a pair of MDR-7506’s and catch up on a bunch of listening I’d been missing. It was kind of therapeutic, getting shit done while getting lost in the music as well.